It is a Shell game, "he said."

这是壳牌石油的诡计。

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Losses may be concealed or shuffled around like a shell game...

损失可以隐藏起来或来回调整，就像是一场骗局。

blog.sina.com.cn

There's always someone out there crying bubble, it seems; the trick is figuring out when it's easy money—and when it's a shell game.

总是有一些人从泡沫中逃离，诀窍很简单：就是赚钱易如反掌的时候，因为这就是一个骗局。

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College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.

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Smelling a shell game--and a deeper pocket--some of the lawsuits named the successor firm as a defendant.

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Accounting for further economic losses, however, is more of a shell game: Did those extra losses result from the wind, the flood or the government?

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